The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has appointed Gary Aitkenhead as its new Chief Executive. Mr Aitkenhead will formally take up post on 1 January 2018 as he replaces outgoing David Marsh, who has been Acting Chief Executive since the previous Chief Executive Jonathan Lyle left the organisation in September. He brings ...
Defence Procurement, Research, Technology & Exportability (DPRTE), the sector’s premier procurement event, will return to Cardiff’s Motorpoint Arena on 27 March 2018. At the heart of DPRTE 2018 will be the Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) Procurement Pavilion. Commanding an annual budget of £14 billion, DE&S is the body charged with ...
Dragonworks – a brand new centre of excellence designed to put advanced laser technology through its paces – has launched in Farnborough, QinetiQ has confirmed. Dragonworks will serve as a test bed for cutting-edge technologies associated with high-energy military and commercial grade lasers. The state-of-the-art facility houses a clean-room which will ...
The Royal Navy Submarine Mechanical Specialists team has won a prestigious award in recognition of its innovative application of freeze seal isolation to repair a submarine’s nuclear reactor. To meet the engineering constraints associated with submarine repair – issues of space and geometry, for example – Royal Navy specialists made canny ...